Dear
President
Another tragic demise of a seven year old child by name Muthulakshmi,
who had fallen into a tube well yesterday morning.
Tamilnadu is notorious for this kind of deaths of children falling into
uncovered and unsafe tubewells. There are at 100 cases of the same kind
of death happening regularly in Tamilnadu.
It is unfortunate that the State Government is unable to tackle the
unlawful digging and unsruplous usage of the said Tube wells in the
State.
The authorities who should take care and reprimand the owners of these
wells, should be brought to books and punished along with the owner or
the landlord.
Kindly look into this tragic problem and please bring in stringent
measures to ensure that these tragedies never occur to any children
again.

Current Status

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CASE CLOSED

Date of Action

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18 Aug 2014

Details

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Acepted.
The petitioner has offerred certain suggestion regarding the
authorities are unable to control unlawful digging of tube well and
fail to control open tube well death. So, the authorities concerned
should be punished and Govt has to take stringent measures to control
this menace which is policy decision of Government. Hence this file
has been closed Vide this office lr. No. RA7(1)/21383/2014 date.
12.08.2014 and may be treated as closed.

Respected
President of India
I have lodged a number of requests in this sites, most of them related
to the problems and my grievance submitted to State Government
departments of Kerala and Tamilnadu. Is there a facility to view and
track all my requests that have been lodged in here, all in one web
page?
If not, is it possible to add such a facility to this site ?
Regarding the redressals of my grievances lodged here, I regret to
inform that not one single petition of mine has been resolved till date.
All of those petitions ended up in some exchange of letters from the
respective governments, and that was end of it, without no initiative,
drive or any sense of accountability from those authorities whom you had
delegated to attend to the petitions.
Seriously, something is wrong in this setup.
But I have some hope regarding this "Online" grievance system to work
someday, because of the good experience I had with the Banking Ombudsman
in Chennai. I had a grievance about the way the Corporation Bank was
debiting bank charges for their services to customers like me, and one
petition via Email to the Banking Ombudsman was enough to initiate
speedy action, redressal of the grienvance and prompt feedback.
I understand that I cannot expect tne kind of accountability and
responsiveness like the RBI, from the other politically controlled
beurocratice government departments of the state.
But still I do have hope the this Helpline of yours would someday
measure upto the name.

Respected
President of India
Subject: The bad condition of "Manarcadu-Ettumanoor" By-Pass Road
A 11 Kilometer road connecting the Towns of Ettumanoor and Manarcau, is
in a dangerous condition. About 5000 vehicles pass through this by-pass
road per day even in this particular condition of damage due to holes
and cracks on the road at about 100 places, all over the said 11
kilometers.
There is a big chance of a serious accident occuring on this road, until
then the authorities might ignore the plight of the people and the
vehicles commuting through this by-pass. Fortunately or unfortunately,
the major part of this road is in the constituency of the Hon. Chief
Minister of Kerala, Shri Oomen Chandy, and other major 5 km of strech
passes through 'Thiruvanchoor' town, which is the home town of the Hon.
Home Minister of Kerala, Shri Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan.
There are some faint hearted measures being taken by the authorities
for the past one decade or so, for aquiring the land for expansion of
the said road, and unfortunatgely, there seems no chance of the
completion of the process of aquisition by the goverment, in the near
future, due to the red tapisim and lack of will in Kerala burocracy.
The stand of the concerned departments seem to be that of complacency
in repairing the road, until the issues of land aquisition for expansion
is resolved. This is a vicious unending circle. Whereas many panchayat
roads emerging from the said by-pass road, say from 'Neelandapady
junction' to 'Karayogam budilings' are being maintained and repaired
with lots of zeal and fervour , just the whet the narrow mindedness of
the local body representatives.
This bye-pass road is the only hope of people commuting through Kottayam
to get away from the endless traffic and blocks encountered in the M.C
road.
Thus, it seems the current situation will go on for long time until some
serious mishap has happened in this area due to the road condition.
Kindly look into the matter and find a redressal for our grievances.

Subject: Sorry state of the bureaucracy
of Kerala state.

Dear President of India
I am a civilian Indian citizen from Kerala State.
I have a petition pending in the Home Department of Kerala State. The
number being 2757/12/M(HOMEVIG), dated 26/06/12. The petition was
registered on my behalf by the Private secretary of the honorable Home
Minister Sri Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishan, as per a fax message of my
request to the minister on 21-06-12. I received an acknowledgment of my
petition on 28-06-12, asking me to contact the Principal Secretary for
Home Ministry office of Kerala, for further information.
I have been trying to contact the office and have sent various letters
and e-mails , requesting the status of my petition. I contacted the
Principal Secretary on his cell number published in the Home Ministry
web site. As per his direction, I did sent a written request for his
assistance by Speed post, for which I have not received any reply till
date.
The following are the issues I faced during my contact with the
Principal Secretary's office.
1. No response to the E-mails sent to the official Ids listed in the
Home Ministry web site.
2. Extremely rude and bullying behaviour by the staff akin to the
British Raj days.
2. No empathy from the Principal secretary and the staff, citing
official procedures, with a 'take it or leave it attitude'.
3. The IDEAS (Information and Data Exchange Advanced System) web site
"http://sics.kerala.gov.in" hosted by the Kerala IT Mission of the State
government, which is petition tracker facility for the public, contains
outdated data.
The status of my petition for the past forty days hasn't changed at
all:-
2757/12/M(HOMEVIG) REQEST FOR RESERCH WORK NATARAJ S
NARAYANAN,
2/491, THEKKEMADOM, PALA ROAD, ETTUMANOOR P.O, KOTTAYAM
CLERK
On contacting the 'G' Section on phone Number, 0471 2518943 and a
reference Number 54752, the officer on the phone (extremely rude,
impolite, insulting person) says that IDEAS website is not authentic
and not updated, and also there is no post called 'CLERK' in his
department. And he says that I need not call him to enquire, "Things
will happen at its own pace".
4. A strange and illegal Disclaimer on the said IDEAS website:-
"Disclaimer
Government of Kerala / NIC accepts no responsibility in relation to the
accuracy, completeness, usefulness or otherwise, of the contents. Users
are advised to verify/check any information with the relevant Government
department(s) and/or other source(s), and to obtain any appropriate
professional advice before acting on the information provided in the
Portal."
Which renders the whole System of on-line tracking of petitions useless.
I wish to inform that if the departments don't value or consider a
request or grievance sent via E-mail, why should they publish the mails
ids in the official web sites? Is It not a violation of the IT act and
its amendment in 2008, when the government bodies ignore the validity of
electronic documents and letters sent via E-mails to the IDs published
in the official websites?
I wish to cite an example how other institutions like RBI are helping
out common man like me. I did have a serious problem with the
Corporation Bank of Coimbatore. I am an account holder with the bank and
the bank resorted to an unprofessional way of debiting my accout
stating RBI guidelines. On making a well drafted complaint to the
Banking Ombudsman over E-mail in a short period of few weeks, the bank
decision was reversed in my favour, at the behest of Banking Ombudsman
Chennai. All of my communication between me , the Bank and the Ombudsman
was via E-mail. Not once did I need to use postal, fax or commuting to
Chennai.
Kindly enforce the IT act amendment of 2008 in Government department to
help us, the common civilian citizen of India.
Warm regards
Nataraj S Narayan

Honorable President of IndiaThe following is an EMail I sent to the Mail ID of Minister for Women & Child Development, Ms Menaka Gandhi, the mail ID being "min-wcd@nic.in" on 07-08-2014.I have not received any reply or acknowledgement to this email till date.It seems that there is no proper system or mechanism to accept and act on grievances sent via Email in the Ministry.The Mail about Unsrupulous vaccination drives taking place in private schools.kindly look into the matter.Warm regardsNataraj S NarayanMIME-Version: 1.0Received: by 10.170.196.199 with HTTP; Thu, 7 Aug 2014 04:56:20 -0700 (PDT)Reply-To: natarajsn@gmail.comDate: Thu, 7 Aug 2014 17:26:20 +0530Delivered-To: natarajsn@gmail.comMessage-ID: <CAK8HZOLckA_Hak3S=-VZpvin2G0YiwYdy2B7g5-UP_9z_NjXhA@mail.gmail.com>Subject: Vaccination Issues in SchoolsFrom: Nataraj S Narayan <natarajsn@gmail.com>To: min-wcd@nic.inFromNataraj S Narayan23/614, ThekkemadomPala RoadEttumanoor - 686631INDIAPh:9443211326Honorable Minister for Women & Child WelfareThe following is a mail sent to me from the doctors of Good ShepherdInternational School, Ooty, where my children are studying. The mail is tonotify me about the compulsory vaccination being administered to allstudents of the school.******************************************************************"Dear Parent,Good Shepherd International School has been COMPULSORILY giving FLU vaccine (including H1N1) every year to its residents which include student, staff and workers at all levels. We have been doing this for the past 5 years andit has proven very beneficial for all concerned, especially when we are in a community living with a strict Government protocol in cases of suspected swine flu.Your child shall be vaccinated for the same this year by mid August 2014. This is for your information.With regards,*Residential Medical Officers *"******************************************************************It is my contention that high profile schools are bit overzealous and over concerned about vaccinating against all sorts of new virus scares. There is a growing concern among us parents, whether the schools and the doctors are falling victim to the ploys of pharmaceutical companies, which are keen to reap huge profits, taking advantage of the next and latest virus stain that comes into the society.Vaccination has surely eradicated many of the endemics which otherwisewould have crippled and debilitated our next generation. But nowadays lots of literature and controversies regarding the effectiveness of these vaccines as a panacea to viral infections as well the growing concern among the parents that the indiscriminate vaccinationscould be cause of triggering autism spectrum of disorders.The email says about adhering to stricts protocols set by the Government. If so, let me remind H1N1 virus cannot just be a scare limited to the students of an International school with 1500 students alone, whereas it would affect the whole community of children of the Ooty. Has the Government and its machinery embarked on vaccinating the children belonging to whole community or district or all children belonging to all government schools? Certainly this cannot be the privilege of a few children in a community.As mentioned in the mail, the school being a fully residential one, the authorities seem to take the short hard way of vaccinating every one rather than long and easy route of letting the students gain immunity.Kindly note that I have no dispute with the intentions of the school and the good doctors.As a layman citizen and parent, I am reaching out to you to enquire into the matter, in your capacity and powers, about the need and efficacy of the vaccination, and announce a national policy regarding this issue of rampant vaccination campaigns limited to private communities.SincerelyNataraj S Narayan